<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - IEC]]> 10 <![CDATA["No one wants to give up traveling": UIB experts analyze the contradictions of mass tourism]]>

The University of the Balearic Islands collaborates with the IEC-ARA cycle 'Qüestions IEC: we interrogate, we understand, we converse' in Palma, a proposal that invites to analyze some of the main questions of the present from a plural and expert perspective. The first session, titled From paid holidays to tourismphobia took place on May 14, in the Sa Riera space (Palma) and focused on the debate about the current tourism model and its tensions. Participants included Dr. Joana Maria Seguí, professor in the Geography department at the UIB, member of the Section of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the IEC and member of the Societat Catalana de Geografia, specialized in transport, and Dr. Macià Blàzquez, professor in the Geography department at the UIB and also a member of the Societat Catalana de Geografia, specialized in tourism. The session was moderated by Jaume Perelló, director of ARA Balears.

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The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) are launching a new series of debates this week to reflect on some of the major social and cultural changes taking place in the Balearic Islands. The series will begin this Thursday, May 14, with a first session focused on one of the most debated issues in the Islands today: the transformation of the social perception of tourism.

]]> <![CDATA[The 'Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain' (and Joan Veny)]]> A few days ago, it was presented at the headquarters of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona,Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain, A magnum opus of Catalan philology, of transcendental importance in the field of Romance studies. To ring the bells and set off fireworks as befitted such a momentous occasion, the IEC held an academic conference dedicated entirely to the completion of this new reference work. Throughout the presentations and roundtables that followed, the brand-new Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain It was deservedly compared to other monumental works dedicated to our language, such as the General dictionary of the Catalan language, by Pompeu Fabra, the Etymological and supplementary dictionary, by Joan Coromines, or –of course– the Catalan-Valencian-Balearic dictionary, by Antoni M. Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, perhaps better known as theAlcover-Moll (whose new digitization we now celebrate, a tool that expands the version we had until now and makes it much more advanced, versatile, and rich in research possibilities). All these works are colossal bricks, enormous pieces of sandstone that have been assembled in the great edifice of Catalan, transforming it into the modern, living, powerful, and diverse language it is today, a fully-fledged European language, even though some may try to deny it recognition. Or, worse still, try to annihilate it.

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